Sink-board.



No. 629,784. PatentedvAug. l, I899.

J. FLINDALL.

SINK BOARD.

hpplication filed Mar. 6, 1899.:

(No Model.)

I lwswa UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN FLINDALL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SINK-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,784, dated August1, 1899.

Application filed March fi, 1899.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN FLINDALL, of

Chicago, in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulIm provements in Sink- Boards, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to drain-boards for sinks; and the object of theimprovement is to provide a board with ribs for supporting dishes abovethe surface of the board, so as to allow the Water to drain 01f as theyare taken from the washpan and to provide the ribs with transversegrooves adapted to hold the edges of plates or similar dishes ininclined position, so that the water will drain 0E toward the loweredge, each plate being held separate from the others. I attain thisobject by means of a ribbed sink-board, the ribs being provided withtransverse grooves, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a sink.

with my improved sink-board applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail showinga fragment of an enlarged longitudinal section of the board,

taken on a line between the ribs and showing the manner of supportingavplate in inclined position thereon. Fig. 3 is a detail showing across-section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

In the drawings, A is the sink, and B the sink-board, which may be madeof wood, metal, stone, or other suitable material and may be plain onthe top side or be provided with-the ordinary grooves b.

C designates the ribs, which are preferably secured to the top of theboard about one and a half inches apart by means of screws 0, appliedfrom thebottom and having their points extended into, but not through,the ribs. The ribs areprovided with transverse grooves c, the walls ofthe grooves being recessed at the bottom, as shown at 0 seas to engagethe edge of a plateD forholding it in inclined position on the board.The grooves are placed far enough apart to hold several Serial No.707,932. (No model.)

I am aware of a prior dish-drainer in which the means for supportingplates or shallow dishes in inclined position comprise a series of slotsin the bottom of a tray supported above the drain-board and a series oftransverse bars near the top of the tray, so that plates or shallowdishes placed in the slots with their lower edges resting on thedrainboard or bottom of a reservoir beneath the tray may be inclined andrested above their middle upon the transverse bars; but I em ploydifferent means from this in that a se* ries of ribs is used inconjunction with the drain -board, the 1 ribs having transverse grooves,with recesses in the walls of the grooves at the bottom adapted toengage the edge of the dishes and hold them in inclined position uponthe drain-board without the aid of transverse rest-bars or other meansfor supporting the upper part of the dishes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is An improvementinsink-boards comprising an inclined drain-board provided with a series ofparallel ribs running in the direction of the incline and havingtransverse grooves, the walls ofthe grooves being recessed at the bottomso as to hold plates or shallow dishes in inclined position on thedrain-board by the edge of the plate being engaged in the recess in thegrooves substantially as specified.

- JOHN FLINDALL,

Witnesses:

ANNIE M. ADAMS, WALTER VAN SANDS.

